New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-24
PERSONAL
Mr.. franklin Il. oowen and his family are travel
ling in the Tyrol

Mr. franklin Il. oowen and his family are travel
ling in the Tyrol
Mr.. A. ]. Cassatt Is booked for q trip to Europe
next month. He will not stay over there long.
word comes of the death of Count Clam, leader OF
tho ultra-C ION sentative Czechs Austria: very
great aristocTat, OF great wealth and states
man with notably large personal following In
Parliament
a subscription for a fund for monument to Cen
ora Logan has becn opened in Chicago.
The Princess OF Wales is this year for the first
tmo an exhibitor at the Royal Society of Painters in
Water Colors. She sends dainty picture Of Windsor,
seen from tho river Mr. Ru.kin sends two pictures,
one painted az lately as February last.
Tho only meat which Mr.. Edison the inventor,
VIII bcc.stcaS He likes all kinds of vegetables,
and for dessert always takes frut strawberries being
favortes. It only takes him few minutes to eat
his dinner Soups omitted from his table when
Mr. Edison uses the telephone he fairly shocks who
ever receives his message by talking very loudly
Boing slightly deaf ne does not appreciate the high
pitch OF his own voice.
leslie In his "reminiscences relates that forty -nino
years ago, at the time Of her coronation, Queen
Victoria had pet spaniel, which always was the
lookout for her return when she was away from
home. on the day OF her coronation Her Majesty
had Of course. been separated from her pet longer
than usual, and when the State coach drove up to
the Palace steps she heard him barking joy usly In
the bah, and exclaimed, There's Dash" and IN
hurry to dof her crown and royal robe and go and
give Dash his bath. Il don't know Why said
Leslie "but the first sight OF her In her robes Of
State brought tears into my eyes, and Il had this
child" Thomas Campbell, the poet, who was present.
said, In his application for ticket to the Earl
Marshal. that There was place In the Abbey
called Poets Corner, and perhaps room might be
found In it for poor living poet"
Mr.. Ruhsln desires to contradict the partly idle.
partly malicious" which have lately got
abroad concerning his health whenever" he says.
81 write word that my friends don't like, they say
l am crazy; and never consider what cruel and
wicked form of libel they thus provoke against the
work Of old age I'm all its convictions antagOnistc
to the changes Of the times and In all Its comfort,
oppressed By them"
The late James Grant, the novelist formerly
very popular in Edinburgh. Whenever his magnifi-
cent face with its black mustache, almost novelty In
those days, was In Prnce-st., the passers-by
nudged each other with and said "There goes
the Black Dragon " Mrs. Grant in those days
was Of three sisters who all very Zine
and large" They present at all the social
functions In the Scottish capital. 1t was standing
jOke that IL not safe 10 invite to any one house
than two OF THESE ladies ut one tme on account
Of their great weight. Mrs. Grant on festive Occa-
siOns wont TO appear In gorgeous garments VI
yellow, and Mr. James Grants yellow frigate'
was then extremely popular with the rising gene n
tiOn the novelist and his wife were generally alluded
to as the "Black Dragon" and the yellow Fngate'"
Baker University, Kansas, has conferred the de-
gree Of Doctor Of Divinity upon the Rev. W.
McKendrec DarwoOd, pastor. OF the Washington
Heights Methodist Episcopal Church Of this city.